Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 51
The Giant in rage and fury spurs on his dusky steed to leap after her, but falls and is broken on the rocks, and ever since, transformed into a hell-hound, he guards the golden crown in the Bode Kessel.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: leap, break, transform, guard · To what, where: rocks, golden crown, Bode Kessel
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Giant | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 broken | mark |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spurs | case |
| 4 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spurs | compound |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fury | cc |
| 6 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rage | conj |
| 7 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Giant | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 steed | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steed | amod |
| 11 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spurs | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 leap | mark |
| 13 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 steed | acl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leap | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 falls | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 falls | cc |
| 18 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spurs | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 broken | cc |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 broken | aux:pass |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 guards | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 rocks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rocks | det |
| 24 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 broken | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 transformed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 transformed | cc |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 since | advmod |
| 28 | since | since | ADV | _ | 30 transformed | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 transformed | punct |
| 30 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 rocks | acl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 hound | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hound | det |
| 33 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hound | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 hell | punct |
| 35 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 transformed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 guards | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 guards | nsubj |
| 38 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 crown | det |
| 40 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 crown | amod |
| 41 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 guards | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 Kessel | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Kessel | det |
| 44 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Kessel | compound |
| 45 | Kessel | Kessel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 crown | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 guards | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | to-infinitive | after steed | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | present · passive | eagle not said here | the rocks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: on rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | transform | participle | the rocks not said here | ever | into a hell hound result; since property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hound=Result | |||
| 4 | guard | present | eagle | the golden crown | the Bode Kessel | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Beneficiary |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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